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Several countries have started to look towards national policies focusing on childhood, the most prominent perhaps is Scotland and their governmental plan to give every child their best start in life (Scottish Government, 2010). We would like to apply the traditional principles of mental health ...
In particular, nurses registered on parts 3, 5, 13 and 14 of the Professional Register (3) and working in A&E should be aware of section 5 (4), the nurse's six-hour holding power (1) and its equivalent, section 25 (2) of the 1984 Mental Health (Scotland) Act (2), and the ...
被引量: 9发表: 2015年 The reports of the Millan and MacLean committees: new proposals for mental health legislation and for high-risk offenders in Scotland In Scotland the MacLean and Millan Committees have produced reports making proposals for serious violent and sexual offenders and for reform ...
and one each in Canada, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Participants included teachers, public health professionals, university resident advisors, community practitioners, public sector staff, and case workers. Law enforcement participants were trainee, probationary, university campus, and front line police ...
health tool. It came into force in February 2005, 180 countries have rati ed it and 135 have strengthened or adopted new legislations. China and Indonesia are yet to ratify it and progress has been described as slow in LMICS (Editorial, 2015). ...
Scotland: CRPD and Mental Health Legislation Chapter © 2024 References Acosta, H. (2008). Do’s and don’ts when working with Hispanics in mental health. National Resource Center for Hispanic Mental Health. Retrieved from http://www.nrchmh.org/attachments/DosAndDont.pdf Albertie, A., ...
In Scotland, the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003 also allows compulsory treatment of mental disorders in the presence of risk to health or safety, so long as the mental disorder is impairing the ability of the patient to make treatment decisions. Mental health ...
Scotland provides an example of a process where consumers, service providers, and policy makers were actively involved in revising legislation. Many other countries such as Jordan, Niger, Uganda, the UK, Zambia, etc., are also in the process of revising existing legislation. On the other hand,...
In 2006, the National Health Service (NHS) assumed responsibility for the commissioning and provision of mental healthcare services in prisons across England and Wales (Hayton & Boyington, 2006) with the same applying to Scotland and Northern Ireland in 2011 and 2012 respectively. As part of ...